Epaphroditus was considered by Paul to be paraboeuomai (see Philippians 2:25-30). In those times, any one who visited a person in prison (or visited the sick or otherwise cast out) was considered to be guilty of the same action. Therefore, Epaphroditus was considered by others to be as much a criminal as Paul when he went and visited him under house arrest.
The type of friend that is willing to risk their own life for another, in the Greek, might be considered to be paraboleumaic (willing to hazard their own life for another). Apparently, during the plague years there was a cult of paraboleumaics who tended to the people who were sick and would also bury those who died. This was at great risk to themselves and made them stand out from the rest of the "normal" folks.
My dad used to collect words. I have often found interesting words and managed to keep a list (somewhere - in a notebook that is currently MIA) of those that might be interesting to insert in a memorandum some day.
This brings to mind the time that dad sent a note up the corporate ladder to someone and indicated that an idea (or perhaps a person) was as clear as a "hawser at a moonless midnight." The boss wrote back that dad always made his life interesting and forced him to look up words.
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